Request for explanations

[Doomspark Deathfire]

This has nothing to do with tradeskills, so I figured OOC Chat would be the best place for it. Mods, please feel free to move. I'm coming back to the game after a year off, and am slowly getting used to all the changes. But every now and then, someone will throw something at me that just leaves me going, "Huh? What?".

Latest example: Audio Triggers. What the heck are they? What purpose do they serve? When did they show up? What expansions do you have to have for them to work? How do you use them?

Where can I download maps for use in-game? I was able to use Google to find www.eq-interface.com and get UI mods.

Can someone explain (using small words so I'll be sure to understand) exactly how to bind a macro to a hot-key such as Autoattack? And that reminds me, WHAT is the default Autoattack key these days?

Is there any way to increase the size of the font in the Tracking Window for those of us who are visually challenged?

Any advice / suggestions / comments appreciated. I feel like a total newbie all over again.

[Elyssanda]

Where can I download maps for use in-game?

Can someone explain (using small words so I'll be sure to understand) exactly how to bind a macro to a hot-key such as Autoattack?
And that reminds me, WHAT is the default Autoattack key these days?

Maps: www.mapfiend.com
Aujtoattack is now Q.

Macro'ing the forage ability:
1> Go to Socials.. title one Forage then
line 1: /doability # (where # is the slot you have forage in)
Line 2: /pause 5
line 3: /autoinventory

2> Take that new social and add it to your hotkeys..
3> Macro left or right arrow to that hotkey
** I macro'd it to the same hotkey in each bank just so I don't accidentally do something I don't want to.....like attack or whatever.

To macro the hotkey to your arrow, Open options , click commands tab, click hotkeys option, set it the way you want it.

[Doomspark Deathfire]

Maps: www.mapfiend.com
Aujtoattack is now Q.

Macro'ing the forage ability:
1> Go to Socials.. title one Forage then
line 1: /doability # (where # is the slot you have forage in)
Line 2: /pause 5
line 3: /autoinventory

2> Take that new social and add it to your hotkeys..
3> Macro left or right arrow to that hotkey
** I macro'd it to the same hotkey in each bank just so I don't accidentally do something I don't want to.....like attack or whatever.

To macro the hotkey to your arrow, Open options , click commands tab, click hotkeys option, set it the way you want it.

Thank you, thank you, Sam-I-Am!

One request for clarification... since I play multiple characters, am I right that macroing the hotkey to the arrow will affect all characters played? That is, I should be careful to set the "doability" to the same slot for all my foragers, and leave it empty for the non foragers? I seem to remember something about that from way back when.

Or am I confused again?

[Bobaten]

You are close to right, it's not the doability you need to worry about, but the hotbutton slot.
The good news is, another change has made this less of a problem. We can now have 4 banks of hotbuttons rather than just one, and all of them use different keyboard commands. If you, like most people, don't actually use all 4 banks of hotkeys, you can take one of the banks you don't use, and put the forage macro there (and then set the arrows to be the keyboard command for that hotkey). You can then just close that hotbutton window and not have to worry about it again.